Monday, May 11, 2009

Doug Mahugh : 1 + 2 = 1?

A timely ODF reality check; read the full post, and ponder the interoperability implications

Does 1 plus 2 equal 3? After last week’s sometimes acrimonious discussion about formulas in ODF, you may be glad to hear that IBM and Microsoft appear to agree on that answer to this simple question. But OpenOffice.org is not so certain – maybe the answer is just 1 sometimes – and the question itself turns out not to be so simple after all. Let me explain.